Speaker 1: So there's all this news about me right now that
Speaker 1: I was punched in the face, and I don't have
Speaker 1: a Google alert on myself, but I've been getting so
Speaker 1: many calls. So then I went to Google myself and
Speaker 1: I'm in every single article about this situation going on
Speaker 1: in New York. And I don't know if you've heard
Speaker 1: about it, but apparently girls have been getting punched in
Speaker 1: the face. So one girl was walking down the street
Speaker 1: and she said on TikTok, you guys, I just got
Speaker 1: punched in the face. And I didn't realize that a
Speaker 1: bunch of people said this, but I happened to fall
Speaker 1: upon one of the videos and in the comments, I said,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is insane. This happened to me,
Speaker 1: and I did a video about it, but I didn't
Speaker 1: post it because I was embarrassed. And then I saw
Speaker 1: this everywhere because there's apparently a crime spree in New York.
Speaker 1: People are getting punched in the face. So I was
Speaker 1: going into New York City to look at an apartment
Speaker 1: and I hadn't really been in New York in a while,
Speaker 1: to be honest. It's like since I've since the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I've been out of the city, and I don't really
Speaker 1: go in unless I'm going to work and I'm in
Speaker 1: the car and I go to the shoot and I
Speaker 1: leave and I come home. I kind of run back
Speaker 1: to the nest. So even though I live so close
Speaker 1: to New York City, I'm not really there that much.
Speaker 1: And it's very transactional, if that makes any sense. I'm
Speaker 1: not just popping in to go have dinner. I'm popping
Speaker 1: in to get hair makeup done in a hotel room,
Speaker 1: which was what was going on. I know, do have
Speaker 1: an apartment, but and then go into a studio shooting something,
Speaker 1: then getting in the car and going home. So this
Speaker 1: day I went to go look at apartments and I
Speaker 1: saw this cute like little, tiny like bakery slash deli
Speaker 1: and it was tiny, and I walked in and was
Speaker 1: just shooting some of the treats and had my phone,
Speaker 1: which sounds like a trend. It sounds like a lot
Speaker 1: of the people who have been on the street on
Speaker 1: their phone. And I was walking out. As I was
Speaker 1: walking out, a guy punched me in the face and
Speaker 1: I freaked out and it was jarring, and it was
Speaker 1: just like the girls because they were punched, but not
Speaker 1: to the point where they got a black eye, like
Speaker 1: they got like a little goose egg or it was
Speaker 1: just like more jarring and alarming. It wasn't like a
Speaker 1: punch to kill, you know. It was almost like a
Speaker 1: punch to just punch somebody. And the exact same thing happened.
Speaker 1: And my driver, Slash Security, was outside. He wasn't obviously
Speaker 1: in the bakery with me because he's also minding the car,
Speaker 1: and I gave him the look to nod over to
Speaker 1: this guy who was this homeless guy who had just
Speaker 1: punched me, and he went over and like got in
Speaker 1: the guy's face, and I was like, let's just get
Speaker 1: the fuck out of here. And I called the realtor
Speaker 1: and I said, I'm texted the realtor and I have
Speaker 1: the text and said, I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I don't want to see an apartment like it. Just
Speaker 1: I thought it was reflecting Manhattan, like Manhattan wasn't back.
Speaker 1: Manhattan's unsafe. It freaked me out that I was just
Speaker 1: in a small, tiny bakery Delli and got punched in
Speaker 1: the face. I thought, oh my god, what has happened
Speaker 1: to New York? Is this the seventies again? And so
Speaker 1: now it was so weird to see that it had
Speaker 1: been happening to other people, all much younger than I am,
Speaker 1: not that that's relevant, but and other areas. And they
Speaker 1: said they caught someone, and I saw the guy and
Speaker 1: it wasn't the same guy. It didn't seem to be
Speaker 1: the same guy. And I showed a Milio my driver,
Speaker 1: but that was really fucked up. But TMZ and other
Speaker 1: people said in a recently deleted comment, and I didn't delete.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can delete a comment on someone
Speaker 1: else's post. But I also don't know why they said
Speaker 1: it was deleted, because it's not deleted. It's still on
Speaker 1: that person's post. I don't even know where that person's
Speaker 1: post is. But someone from my team's screen grabbed me
Speaker 1: and it's still there, so a I didn't delete it,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how to delete someone on someone
Speaker 1: else's post. I don't know if you could do that,
Speaker 1: but see it happened, and I have the text. I
Speaker 1: looked up the text last night because everyone's so crazy
Speaker 1: in this world that everywhere it's like that any claims
Speaker 1: to have been punched in the face anyway, I know
Speaker 1: they can't say it definitely happened because they weren't there
Speaker 1: and they don't have video. And the video that I
Speaker 1: did have wasn't of me being punched in the face.
Speaker 1: It was of me saying, holy shit, I just got
Speaker 1: punched in the face. But I never posted it because
Speaker 1: I was sort of embarrassed. It just felt weird to
Speaker 1: be like, Hi, I got punched in the face, because
Speaker 1: I I don't know. I guess we talk about all
Speaker 1: our stupid things and cottage cheese and makeup, but like
Speaker 1: it just felt like, what's the point of me telling
Speaker 1: everybody this? It freaked me out, And in the past
Speaker 1: I had been criticized for saying New York wasn't safe,
Speaker 1: and so I just I don't know. I just didn't
Speaker 1: but I didn't delete it, and I have the text
Speaker 1: where I said to the realtors, holy shit, cancel, I
Speaker 1: don't want to see I don't want to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: I just got hit in the face, is what I said.
Speaker 1: Not punched. I got hit in the face, which I
Speaker 1: don't know what the difference is, but I got hit,
Speaker 1: not punched. Maybe it wasn't close fist, I don't remember,
Speaker 1: but crazy. The best possible example of my favorite quote
Speaker 1: from Lauren Michaels, which is you have to make an
Speaker 1: exit to be able to make an entrance. Is Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan and five point zero is really incredible and
Speaker 1: it's funny because she'll confirm this. I predicted this. I
Speaker 1: think it had to be three to five years ago.
Speaker 1: I reached out to her team and said I wanted
Speaker 1: to produce a documentary with her about her and predicted
Speaker 1: her coming out on the other side in this way.
Speaker 1: Remember she was in Greece dancing on the tables and
Speaker 1: she was like, I don't know if it's called a
Speaker 1: gift or a meme or whatever, but like it was
Speaker 1: a whole thing, and Mikonos and people were making fun
Speaker 1: of her, and I reached out to her. I met
Speaker 1: her years ago at a nightclub at One Oak, like partying,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, there was something about her that
Speaker 1: we connect did to each other in the most non
Speaker 1: but also superficial of ways, and we kept in touch
Speaker 1: via social media, not all the time, but just once
Speaker 1: in a while she'd what's at me or message me
Speaker 1: and there was always a mutual respect. And I never
Speaker 1: told her this, but one time I went to go
Speaker 1: look at an apartment in New York City, and it
Speaker 1: was an apartment that she had been renting. I was
Speaker 1: looking to buy and she had been renting it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: we sort of just very sporadically would message each other
Speaker 1: on social media, and I was just always watching her.
Speaker 1: And then I reached out and wanted to do something
Speaker 1: with her. Wanted to do some version of just her story.
Speaker 1: And so I'm on the sidelines watching and I'm really
Speaker 1: excited and happy for her and love that she made
Speaker 1: an exit to make an entrance, and she was just
Speaker 1: such an excellent child actor and she fell down the
Speaker 1: wrong tube and she certainly did it with passion and fire.
Speaker 1: I also was out to dinner with her in La
Speaker 1: I just remembered that with a group of people at
Speaker 1: the Chateau Marmont. And good for her, good for her
Speaker 1: having a son, good for her being in a relationship,
Speaker 1: good for her checking out, good for her checking in,
Speaker 1: and good for her not letting her story be told
Speaker 1: for her. She grew up, she was a young, she
Speaker 1: was a kid, and now she's an adult and she
Speaker 1: gets to reframe her life and her story and she
Speaker 1: gets to come in on her own terms. And she's
Speaker 1: a legitimate, good actress. So that's a lot. Oh and
Speaker 1: by the way, having done that Lifetime movie one time
Speaker 1: in my whole life, there was a version of pressure
Speaker 1: that was different than any other type of pressure. And
Speaker 1: I'm not like a celebrity an actress. I just mean
Speaker 1: like having to be a person that an entire set,
Speaker 1: an entire crew, a cast relies on thinking about what
Speaker 1: they're thinking of you, thinking about if you know what
Speaker 1: you're doing, memorizing your lines, being present, the boredom in between,
Speaker 1: the early call times, the late staying there really late,
Speaker 1: the late night shoots, all of it is not easy.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of pressure. And so to start that
Speaker 1: as a child and then be successful at it and
Speaker 1: make money at it and be famous, and then everybody
Speaker 1: else wants you to be something and do something, and
Speaker 1: people pulling you and to be I think in some version,
Speaker 1: I'm sure she was supporting members of her family, like
Speaker 1: that's a pressure, or just she's the brain maker in
Speaker 1: her family, she's a breadwinner. That's a pressure. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know how any of these people survive this. I
Speaker 1: really don't. Like I've heard Justin Bieber has had crazy
Speaker 1: stuff go on, you know. I mean, we've observed that,
Speaker 1: but just a child star and I'm sure he supported
Speaker 1: parts of his family or they relied on him like
Speaker 1: this is not an easy road and for someone that
Speaker 1: young to withstand that and deal with that, I mean,
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson, Macaulay Culkin, Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan, it's Amanda Binds,
Speaker 1: and like the list goes on. This is not a
Speaker 1: situation where it's easy to go into fame as a
Speaker 1: child and thrive and survive. It's too much. It's a
Speaker 1: boulder on your back as a child. I actually think
Speaker 1: it's unfair. I would not want that for a brand
Speaker 1: at all. She does these little videos mimicking what I do,
Speaker 1: but that's where it starts and stops. She doesn't have
Speaker 1: the weight of the world on her back, and a
Speaker 1: kid should not have a weight of the world on
Speaker 1: her back. It really should. They shouldn't think about how
Speaker 1: many examples there are a it being insane like Lindsay
Speaker 1: Lohan was just a victim of her circumstances, so good
Speaker 1: for her.